Saturday Final Nationals: Warriors-Thunder Becomes TNT’s Top Conference Final Game 6 To-Date

Saturday belonged to TNT with the Golden State Warriors’ 108-101 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6 of the “2016 NBA Western Conference Finals”. Averaging a 6.2 household rating and 10.8 million viewers, Warriors-Thunder on May 28 was the highest-rated, most-watched Game 6 of an NBA Conference Final in the network’s history, to-date.

The Warriors/Thunder telecast – peaking with an average of 14.6 million total viewers and an 8.3 U.S. household rating from 11:30-11:45 p.m. ET – won the night across all of television (cable and broadcast).

Additionally, TNT’s “Inside the NBA” garnered a 4.1 household rating – its highest overnight rating of the season – to rank as television’s second-best program of the night, according to overnight delivery. Throughout the NBA Conference Finals, “Inside the NBA” continues to out-deliver all other late night talk show programming (cable and broadcast) in total viewers and all key adult and male demos.

Saturday night’s Thunder/Warriors telecast is up 33 percent in total viewers and 27 percent in U.S. household rating when compared with 2014, the last time TNT televised the Western Conference Finals (Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio). This year’s coverage of WCF Game 6 also generated double-digit audience growth across all key demos.

Top local markets for Saturday’s Thunder/Warriors telecast — Oklahoma City (26.1), San Francisco (22.2), Cleveland (18.0), Tulsa (13.6) and San Antonio (12.5)

Through six games, the WCF on TNT is averaging nine million viewers and a 5.4 U.S. household rating, up 33 percent and 29 percent respectively, when compared with the network’s WCF coverage in 2014.

For the entire week of May 23-29, 2016 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down -2 percent in total viewership (1.011 million vs. 1.036 million) and flat among Adults 18-49 (601,000 vs. 601,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -5 percent in total viewership (1.011 million vs. 1.064 million) and down -3 percent among Adults 18-49 (601,000 vs. 617,000) from the same week one year ago (May 25-31, 2015). (http://programminginsider.com/?p=8545)